Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Behind Every Man…
Here’s French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arriving home after sexual assault charges filed against him by a maid in a New York hotel were dropped. Apparently, exhaustive investigations into the matter resulted in prosecutors determining that the maid’s evidence was not credible.
Well, it wouldn’t be, would it? She’s a maid.
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Honey Money: A Prickly Insight
Surely by now, anyone with any interest in the subject of feminism will have finished rolling about on the floor and screaming their response to Catherine Hakim’s book ‘Honey Money’, which promotes the very modern notion that women should use their looks to get ahead in the workplace.
However. You may not have read Guardian journalist Zoe William’s spiky interview with Hakim, which not only confirms many of things you suspected about Hakim, having spent time considering her theory, but a few you couldn’t have hoped for.
Enjoy.
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A Shot In The Foot Of Athletics: False Start Faux Pas
Usain Bolt. Dwayne Chambers. Christine Ohuruogu. All victims of the ‘one false start equals a red card rule‘ during the World Athletics Championships this weekend.
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Hurricane Irene: The Horrible Truth
The full impact of Hurricane Irene is felt in the aisles of East Coast supermarkets and shoppers struggle to cope with an unprecedented event in US history. No. More. Cake. Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images.
Icons Of Our Time: Michele Bachmann
Michele looks around nervously for ‘The Nation’. She doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it might contain gays. Image: AP Photo/CBS News, David Peterson/Daylife.
The Guardian’s Angela Cummine asks whether feminists should support the right-wing, homophobic, Christian fundamentalist, US presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann.
The same woman who went to Iraq and compared one of Saddam Hussain’s former palaces ‘to a mall’? The one who thinks that swine flu might be a democrat conspiracy? So what you’re essentially asking, Ange, is whether women with an interest in equality should support a person who implied that Melissa Etheridge got breast cancer because she’s gay?
Er no. In fact, no one should support Bachmann. Not because she’s a right-wing, homophobic, Christian fundamentalist, though. Because she’s clearly an effing tool.
Gaddafi, Guns & Golf Carts: A Very Modern Invasion
Dude? Are you, like, sure you know what you’re doing with that?
It’s not easy being a global superpower these days, y’know. Populations are just so ruddy demanding. Not only do they want unlimited power for their electronic devices, cars, houses, planes etc, they also insist that it is cheap and ecologically sustainable.
If that wasn’t bad enough, when God (the white, middle class version we refer to when swearing in traffic jams) created the world, he failed to place all of the raw materials needed to produce this energy in convenient locations, instead choosing to place massive oil reserves in sandy countries run by mad people. Clearly, the dude* had a sense of humour.
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Celebrity Big Brother: The Wilderness Years
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tara Reid. She has no clue where she is, what she’s meant to be doing or indeed what her own name is, but she is arguably the most famous person to have entered the ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother house and for that we should be grateful.
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Ecstasy: A Cure For Cancer At Last?
Scientists are reportedly isolating certain component chemicals of MDMA, having discovered that the drug is capable of killing leukemia cells. Those of you familiar with the drug in it’s early 90’s rave incarnation will not be surprised. Back then it proved to be a highly effective deterrant against the biological cells responsible for fashion sense, music taste and social propreity.
Cancer cells should be a breeze.
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Tune Of The Day: Jumpers – Sleater Kinney
Not, as you may suspect, an homage to knitwear, but a storming romp through the matter of suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge. Which to date, has not been used in any San Francisco tourist literature.
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